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In April, commemorating the 75th anniversaries of both Gone With the Wind and the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell House unite with the festival as a Lead Cultural Alliance Partner. Held at Piedmont Park, the festival runs Friday, April 15, through Sunday, April 17, 2011. Stop by our booth for a variety of engaging history and literary activities, such as historical Travel Trunk displays, photo opportunities, a never-ending story game, enriching demonstrations, Poetry Out Loud performances, and craft-making activities for all ages. Before or after your festival visit, stop at Margaret Mitchell House and receive free museum admission on April 16 and 17, 2011. Learn more about the Cultural Alliance Partnership online.
| | | |  | | This Land is Whose Land? Using Land Records to Trace Your Family History |  | | Saturday, April 9, 2011
10:30 AM - Noon
Deeds, maps, lottery registration lists, and other land records can place an ancestor in a specific place at a specific time. These records can sometimes tell us an ancestor's age, birthplace, military service, citizenship, literacy, and other personal information as well. Join Atlanta History Center archivist Sue VerHoef as she explains how to locate and utilize these records to find out the branches of your family tree. Learn more about this program.
| | | | | | Magic Mondays: Egg Hunt |  | | Monday, April 11, 2011
10:30 - 11:30 AM
It's the Atlanta History Center's annual egg hunt at the History Center's Smith Family Farm. Toddlers explore the farm to find eggs, and make a craft related to the theme.
Learn more about this program.
| | | | | | Homeschool Day: Relics and Remembrance |  | | Thursday, April 14, 2011
1:00 - 4:00 PM Commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War and learn how local military archaeologists and historians use artifacts to piece together the past and investigate the battles that may have been fought in your backyard!
Learn more about this program. | | | | | | | | | |  | | Literary Center at Margaret Mitchell House Writing Workshop: The Six Elements of Writing Southern Fiction |  | | Saturdays, April 16 and 23, 2011
1:00 – 5:00 PM Led by experienced, multi-published Southern author, Julie L. Cannon, this workshop will inspire and guide writers to discover the six essential elements that make Southern stories distinctive. Participants study the genre, with an exposure to a range of writers and styles of Southern fiction to become familiarized with the factors that create an authentic Southern story, and learn techniques to bring characters and plots to life.
This program is part of the Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind 75th Anniversary Celebration program series. Learn more about this program.
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